Dr. Manal Haj-Zaroubi - Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
2003: Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
My major research interests are on:
1. The study of Olive Mill Wastewater as sunscreen.
2.Medicinal plants, activity and identification.
Publications:
- Asli Sari, Haj-Zaroubi Manal, “Exogenous agro-materials extracted from olive mill wastewater (OMW) increases resistance of Zea mays L. and Triticum aestivum L. to salt stress”. (in preparation).
- Awwad S, Markovics A, Halahlih F, Yazbak A, Haj-Zaroubi M, Muklada H, Klein Jd, Azaizeh H. Effect of Irrigation Water Source on Secondary Metabolites in Salix acmophylla and Their Potential to Impair Exsheathment of Gastro- Intestinal Nematodes. Ann Agric Crop Sci. 2021; 6(3): 1079.
- Landau, Satheeja Santhi, Itamar Glazer, Liora Salame, Hussein Muklada, Manal Haj-Zaroubi, Safaa Awwad, Alexander Markovics, Hassan Azaizeh., “Can an entomopathogenic nematode serve, by proxy to strongyles, in assessing the anthelmintic effects of phenolic compounds?” Experimental Parasitology, 2019 (under submission).
- Velayudhan Satheeja Santhi, Liora Salame, Hussein Muklada, Hassan Azaizeh, Manal Haj-Zaroubi, Safaa Awwad, Serge Yan Landau, Itamar Glazer., “Toxicity of phenolic compounds to entomopathogenic nematodes: A casestudy with Heterorhabditis bacteriophora exposed to lentisk (Pistacia lentiscus) extracts and their chemical components”, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2019, 160, 43-53.
- Manal Haj-Zaroubi and Franz P. Schmidtchen., “Probing Binding-Mode Diversity in Guanidinium–Oxoanion Host–Guest Systems”, ChemPhysChem 2005, 6, 1181 – 1186.
- Haj-Zaroubi M., Schmidtchen F.P., Mitzgel, N., ”The Rational Design of Anion Host Compounds: An Exercise in Subtle Energetics”, Chemie, Int. Ed., 2002, 41, 104-106.
- Haj-Zaroubi M., Schmidtchen, F.P., “The Anatomy of the Host-Guest Binding Energetics of Bicyclic Guanidinium-Oxoanion Ion-pairs”, Thesis.
- Columbus I., Haj-Zaroubi M., Siegel J.S., and Biali S., “Face Selectivity in the Hydrogenation of Calixarene Ethers”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1998, 63, 9148.
- Columbus I., Haj-Zaroubi M. and Biali S., “Fully Hydrogenated Calixarene Derivatives: Calix[4]cyclohexanone and Clix[4]cyclohexanol”, Journal of American Chemical Society, 1998, 120, 11806
Gibson D., Binyamin I., Haj M., Ringel I., Ramu A., Katzhendler J., “Anthraquinone interactors as carrier molecules for second-generation platinum anticancer drugs”, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 1997, 32, 823.